Negotiating International Criminal Law: A courtroom ethnography of trial performance at the International Criminal Court (NegoICL)
Main funder
Funder's project number: 325535
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 480 000,00
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/09/2019
Project end date: 31/08/2023
Summary
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague became operative as recently as 2002, and is challenged from multiple angles. Unlike national legal systems (which have a long history), the ICC represents a novel way of administering justice that is still under development. As a result, it faces multiple uncertainties in fundamental law and procedure. Other challenges relate to the linguistic and cultural diversity of the different populations within its jurisdiction. The court also operates in a particular geopolitical context, and its legitimacy is therefore repeatedly challenged by various outside forces.
This project investigates these tensions from an interaction-analytical angle. It draws on discourse-analytic language and law research and courtroom ethnography, and examines how the different actors in an international criminal trial (magistrates, attorneys, etc.) take into account these tensions while they interact with one another before the court. In this way, the project will provide a unique empirical snapshot of the step-by-step development of this new form of justice, by focusing on the day-to-day behavior of the trial participants.
This project investigates these tensions from an interaction-analytical angle. It draws on discourse-analytic language and law research and courtroom ethnography, and examines how the different actors in an international criminal trial (magistrates, attorneys, etc.) take into account these tensions while they interact with one another before the court. In this way, the project will provide a unique empirical snapshot of the step-by-step development of this new form of justice, by focusing on the day-to-day behavior of the trial participants.
Principal Investigator
Primary responsible unit
Follow-up groups
Profiling area: School of Wellbeing (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Well
Related publications and other outputs
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- International Criminal Law Review, Volume 24, Issue 1. Special Issue: Lights and Shadows of the Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court, Part 2 (2024) Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Juan-Pablo; et al.; C2
- Ongwen and the Legitimacy of the ICC (2024) Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Juan-Pablo; et al.; B1; OA
- Trajectories of spirituality : Producing and assessing cultural evidence at the International Criminal Court (2024) D'hondt, Sigurd; et al.; A1; OA
- Compensation in Cases of Mass Atrocities at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court (2023) Pérez-León-Acevedo, Juan-Pablo; A1
- International Criminal Law Review, Volume 23, Issue 5-6. Special Issue: Lights and Shadows of the Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court, Part 1 (2023) Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Juan-Pablo; et al.; C2
- Lights and Shadows of the Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court (2023) Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Juan-Pablo; et al.; B1; OA
- Evidence About Harm : Dual Status Victim Participant Testimony at the International Criminal Court and the Straitjacketing of Narratives About Suffering (2022) D’hondt, Sigurd; et al.; A1; OA
- Reparation for victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law : New developments (2022) Salmón, Elizabeth; et al.; A1
- The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) vis-à-vis amnesties and pardons : factors concerning or affecting the degree of ECtHR’s deference to states (2022) Pérez-León-Acevedo, Juan-Pablo; A1; OA
- Disentangling Law and Religion in the Rohingya Case at the International Criminal Court (2021) Pérez-León-Acevedo, Juan-Pablo; et al.; A1; OA
